Age discrimination in the work place is a major problem, but the problem of social age discrimination has never been more grave, especially with an ageing population. This is one of my more recent fairwells -

You have spoken with your actions/non actions, and this is my reply-
Our genders and respective ages, we are both adults after all, should have been considered entirely irrelevent in a relationship of only platonic friendship. Don`t you ever look to your intuition for answers, rather than merely being led by the stopping and starting of your programming? My website only pays homage to friendship, so that should be a clue. Do you honestly believe, that totally regardless of what you were part of and the friendship that we shared, that all men are actually the same person, or, perhaps I should have said, same animal, and with the same animal objectives.

I was wholly aware that active friendship was going to be a giant leap, as you know all too well, but whatever picture has been painted, this is only a perception, and as hard as it may seem to believe, reality shall never bend to it, nor even realise of its existence.

Do you as an individual honestly consider it resonable that adults, merely on account of how long they`ve been alive, should be singled out to have their friendships destroyed, and this totally regardless of any other consideration, of character, or, of intent. This even before any form of active friendship has even been tested? There are many of all ages, whether this be conciously or not, that rank the top orders of friendship far higher than obsessive emotion, but the top orders are generally unreachable, and so even when much more is being sought, emotion, followed by some assemblance of order, attempts but never quite manages to take its place.

There is risk in every venture, but it is not respective ages, nor genders,which decrees this risk.
The sense of crossing time when these friendships are working at their best creates a special kind of magic usually beyond reach for those of like ages.

Romantic sentiment is the most powerful commodity when delivered such that it fits perfectly, spontaneously fashioned to each appropriately available pause, is from the heart, and most essentially, is yours. One requires activities and even interests in common for companionship to survive, but the most genuine and closest friendships are sustained by chemistry alone.

Without due consderation to the pre-stated, light is almost invariably dark, while no less than light in its visibility, for the hand dealt you and your perception here is only in shades of darkness. All comparisons are only with gloom, other than those from a borrowed imaginations half life. To kiss, even when done most well, is never more than that of flesh - tangible desire laced with desire never quite understood, nor could be, for it`s not of your world. To hope is akin to being hopeless, in a place where hope is scant and hopelessness plenty. The tide is always out before its turning, and when in never to be realised, nor even by accident approached. Life is long, hard, unforgiving, and more than all this, lonely, but it`s what you know, all you know, and now you`ll never know at all, for how`s it even possible to genuinely glimpse, what is actually, a completely other state of being. Matters not whether in death, one, or one thousand are by your bed, for they, with the best will on earth, are realised by you as no more than shades of grey, for they were never quite recorded, nor could they have been, living in your world of islands.

Understand yourself well in order that you may communicate that sense of you, which is most truly you, and not from that dead place of programming and charade. This that you may truly come alive from the depths of your being, timeless, genderless, as though a child, in your child, and take your intellect and your wisdom with you, but always apart from you. You are that person that deep within you most desire to be, so in your all creative, all spontaneous child self, let it be perfect.

I find for me that at the onset the best environment for making new friends tends to be one mostly hurried, such that, operating significantly from instincts, responses are more likely to be more appropriate, and for more of the time - You may begin by knowing nothing but it is precisely then that a sixth sense can go most rewarded. Girls usually want to become familiar with guys at their own speed.

Once the initial interest has been revealed, a studied as well as an intuitive sense of person is required in order that future communications may be ultimately positive. Good instincts, when formulated over another`s actions, a can unfold the decisive layers of any individual.  It is undoubtably the being understood, the empathy between two people, which creates the environment for the closest and most loving friendships.